Apr 1, 2010
School Did Nothing To Protect Gay Teen From Violence
Teachers and administrators are the care takers of our children during the school day. School officials who intentionally ignore bullying and violence committed against Gay and Lesbian students should be put in jail for a very long time. If a teacher cannot treat all students equally because of their religious beliefs then that teacher must be fired.
A homosexual teenager who claimed that his high school’s administrators failed to respond when he was tormented by classmates settled his negligence lawsuit against the school district on Monday, March 29.
The student, identified in the lawsuit only as J.L., filed the federal lawsuit against the Mohawk Central School District in upstate New York last summer with representation by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Associated Press reports.
Under the terms of the recent settlement, the school district agreed to pay $50,000 to J.L.’s family as compensation for counseling services, and agreed to employ several policy changes and staff training aimed to protect students from harassment.
Mohawk superintendent Joyce Caputo told the news source, “We recognize there is always room to learn and improve, and we intend to do just that.”
She added that the school staff would never intentionally discriminate or tolerate bullying to a student or group of students.
Now 15 years old, J.L. has moved to a neighboring school district, where he says he much happier.
In every U.S. state, teachers, nurses, social workers, and day care workers are required by law to reported the suspected abuse of a child.ADNFCR-1918-ID-19698097-ADNFCR
via Gay Teen Says School Was Idle As He Was Bullied | Avvo News.
Contact your members of Congress and demand they pass H.R. 4530: Student Nondiscrimination Act of 2010.
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